Destination Motivation, Cultural Orientation, and Adaptation: International Students’ Destination-Loyalty Intention

Personal values, subjective well-being and destination-loyalty intention of international students

What are the factors that predict international students' destination-loyalty intention? This is the main question this paper addresses, using an online survey among 396 (short-term, N = 182) and (long-term, N = 214) international students at a Norwegian university. Structural equation model-AMOS was conducted to examine relationships among personal values, subjective well-being and destination...

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Tourists‟ Destination Knowledge and Loyalty

Adaptation of International Students in Japan: The Cultural Fit of Control Orientation

This study aimed to explore the role of cultural fit for the adaptation of international students in Japan. The concept of cultural fit (Ward & Chang, 1997) suggests that resembling the host culture in certain characteristics is advantageous for sojourners’ cross-cultural adaptation. It was assumed that secondary-primary control orientation is one such characteristic of importance for adaptatio...

Social network sites and international students' cross-cultural adaptation

Prior research demonstrates the great potential of social network sites (SNSs) to international students’ cross-cultural adaptation, but fails to explain how specific dimensions of SNS use may be related to crosscultural adaptation. Extending anxiety/uncertainty management (AUM) theory, we added new antecedents about social ties on SNSs distinguished by cultural origins and geographic locations...

Cadets and nursing students: same destination - different route.

BACKGROUND In response to the policy initiatives in England to secure recruitment and retention in the nursing and midwifery professions, strategies to improve and extend access to preregistration education and training in England have been developed. The relatively recent development of modern cadet schemes is an example of such a strategy. Despite the increasing interest in and proliferation ...